Episode 3: The Most Unequal Region -- with Lydia Assouad
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English - September 02, 2020 15:00 - 21 minutes - 24.6 MBSocial Sciences Science Education Courses economics inequality research Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Lydia Assouad revisits the "Arab Inequality puzzle" : survey estimates suggest that inequality in the Middle East is not particularly high. In reality, the Middle East is the most unequal region in the world, with both enormous inequality between countries and large inequality within countries.
Recommendations:
- Comics "Palestine" by Joe Sacco
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769712.Palestine
- Movie "Capernaum" by Nadine Labaki
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8267604/
Paper:
- "Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014" by Lydia Assouad
https://wid.world/document/rethinking-lebanese-economic-miracle-extreme-concentration-income-wealth-lebanon-2005-2014-wid-world-working-paper-201713/
Lydia Assouad revisits the "Arab Inequality puzzle" : survey estimates suggest that inequality in the Middle East is not particularly high. In reality, the Middle East is the most unequal region in the world, with both enormous inequality between countries and large inequality within countries.
Recommendations:
Comics "Palestine" by Joe Sacco
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/769712.Palestine
Movie "Capernaum" by Nadine Labaki
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8267604/
Paper:
"Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: The extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon 2005-2014" by Lydia Assouad
https://wid.world/document/rethinking-lebanese-economic-miracle-extreme-concentration-income-wealth-lebanon-2005-2014-wid-world-working-paper-201713/